from nkat2112@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 24 Jun 12:39
https://sh.itjust.works/post/62332412
CBC News analysis finds IDF blasts caused damage deep underground
Families of Canadian servicemen buried in Gaza say they want the government to do more to protect their loved ones’ remains. Some say they would like to see their relatives — the last Canadian soldiers to be buried overseas — removed from a cemetery that has been repeatedly damaged by the Israel Defense Forces and brought home.
Twenty-two Canadians are buried at the Gaza War Cemetery in the Tuffah district of Gaza City, all of whom lost their lives during the UN’s first major peacekeeping operation that began following the Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
Aerial images reviewed by CBC’s visual investigations team show that the IDF has progressively destroyed headstones, dug berms with heavy earthmoving equipment, parked tanks and other armoured vehicles around the site and triggered explosions that saw a section of the Canadian peacekeeper plot blown into the air.
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